missing desktop icon for Google Earth - Solved

[mick12345678]

I installed Google Earth and it works fine, but the desktop icon is missing.
How do I configure it ?

[stretchedthin]

Open your file manager as root and go to   /usr/share/applications/

Find the google .desktop file and right click on it an open it in an editor like mousepad.

It should look something like this...

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Google Earth
GenericName=3D planet viewer
Comment=Explore, search and discover the planet
Exec=/opt/google-earth//googleearth %f
Terminal=false
MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/googleearth-icon.png
Categories=Application;Network
MimeType=application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml;application/vnd.google-earth.kmz;application/earthviewer;application/keyhole


What your interested in is the line that starts Icon=

There you need to make sure the path to the icon is correct.

Open catfish and search google  .png
Search the filesystem folder.
Catfish will locate the file and define the correct path for you, put that in the line that starts 'Icon=' in the .desktop config file.

This is all based on the assumption that you are using VL 5.9 gold.  If not please let us know the version you are using.
Hope it helps.

[mick12345678]

Thanks for the reply.

I followed your instructions, and all seemed to match...

So I deleted the desktop icon I had created and made a new one - this time it worked 

All's well that ends well